Meister Eckhart
11 quotations
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
The more we have the less we own.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.